District spokesman Justin Elbert told the Houston Chronicle administrators or other school officials cannot comment on internal student matters. District officials labeled the incident a "teachable moment," although several Facebook responses indicated a nearly identical assignment was given to students at the school last year. Residents of the Houston area school district and commenters on the Klein ISD Facebook...

TEACHERS who have a sexual relationship with their students will be charged criminally and banned from the profession, says Teachers’ Service Commissioner Baran Sori. He told The National that sexual relationships between teachers and students were not tolerated and were criminal in nature. He made the statement after a parent reported that his daughter was allegedly abused sexually by her grade eight teacher at a school in Southern Highlands. The grade...

Paedo vigilante burned down school because he claimed it was a ‘playground for paedophiles’

A paedo vigilante burned down a school and called it a "playground for paedophiles" after becoming obsessed with the idea of sexual abuse being protected. Philip Day, 55, posted "wild accusations" on Facebook before torching the secondary school in a £2.4million arson attack in Northwich, Cheshire. A court heard that Day, of...

Philip Day: Paedo vigilante torched school because he claimed it was ‘playground for paedophiles’]]>Atlanta school cheating scandal: The untold story of corporate greed and criminalization of...Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:44:11 +0000http://www.iheartmyteacher.org/index.php?threads/atlanta-school-cheating-scandal-the-untold-story-of-corporate-greed-and-criminalization-of.136706/
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Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, we turn now to the fight for public education, as the teachers’ strike in Denver heads into its third day. District and union negotiators worked late into the night...

Atlanta school cheating scandal: The untold story of corporate greed and criminalization of...]]>2When black students are beaten in school — and black educators are to blameWed, 20 Feb 2019 11:44:11 +0000http://www.iheartmyteacher.org/index.php?threads/when-black-students-are-beaten-in-school-%E2%80%94-and-black-educators-are-to-blame.137257/
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When 9-year-old Jomaury Champ showed up to Tilton Elementary School on Chicago’s west side one morning last September, his homeroom teacher allegedly decided to give the fourth-grader a lesson he would never forget. The teacher, Kristen Haynes, enlisted help from her best friend, Juanita Tyler, who was not a school...

When black students are beaten in school — and black educators are to blame]]>Editorial: School boards should examine their child-abuse reporting policiesWed, 20 Feb 2019 07:32:29 +0000http://www.iheartmyteacher.org/index.php?threads/editorial-school-boards-should-examine-their-child-abuse-reporting-policies.137242/
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Safety and security should be as high a priority for schools as is providing education. School employees and administrators have an all-important obligation to report allegations of child sexual abuse to proper authorities. This requirement isn’t merely common sense — it’s a mandate specifically set forth in Nebraska state law. If school employees, of whatever level, witness or suspect alleged abuse,...

Tes has been contacted with more claims about a “culture of fear” and staff “ripping into children” at two multi-academy trusts alleged to have used a hardline behaviour approach called “flattening the grass”. Last week Tes reported claims that staff from Outwood...

Exclusive: More whistleblowers report fear and aggression at ‘flattening the grass’ academy...]]>1Former area priests on list of many accused of sex crimesSat, 16 Feb 2019 23:43:19 +0000http://www.iheartmyteacher.org/index.php?threads/former-area-priests-on-list-of-many-accused-of-sex-crimes.136850/
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It’s a roster of shame and disgrace and advocates for victims of clergy sexual abuse are certain the list will grow as a2 state investigation continues. Alist of clergy members credibly accusedof sexually abusing minors was made public on Feb. 13 by the Diocese of Paterson. It includes 11 former priests in the Morristown-Hanover area. Information about them was included in a list of...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York has released the names of more than 100 priests who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors over the diocese's 166-year-history. The diocese said Friday that the bulk of cases involved priests ordained between 1930 and 1979 and that there've been just two cases since the Catholic...

When you send your kids to school you expect them to be safe, but in the last week two area school employees faced serious charges involving inappropriate behavior with children. According to the Department of Justice, William Bell, a former information and technology employee of Monticello Community Schools,...

Illinois: School background checks aim to keep kids safe]]>Sexual Abuse by Teachers is on the RiseFri, 15 Feb 2019 05:34:53 +0000http://www.iheartmyteacher.org/index.php?threads/sexual-abuse-by-teachers-is-on-the-rise.136669/
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Lately, it seems like it has become common to see news stories involving the arrest of teachers who are being charged with sexual abuse and misconduct involving their students, some of whom are as young as 11 years old. Schools are expected to be a safe environment for children, but these arrests make people realize kids aren’t as safe as we’d like them to be when we send them off to school. Stop...

Sexual Abuse by Teachers is on the Rise]]>Denver high school violated First Amendment rights of student journalist who documented strike...Thu, 14 Feb 2019 02:22:51 +0000http://www.iheartmyteacher.org/index.php?threads/denver-high-school-violated-first-amendment-rights-of-student-journalist-who-documented-strike.136510/
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East High School Principal John Youngquist told The Denver Post on Tuesday that when students send information to the press during the strike, “they’re acting as agents of that media source.”

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Denver high school violated First Amendment rights of student journalist who documented strike...

Horny teachers are preying on high school students through social media, soliciting nude images and videos from naïve teens that are costing some their careers. South Carolina’s Department of Education suspended the teaching certificate for Battery Creek High School teacher Ryan Jackson last month after learning of allegations of “inappropriate communications” with a 17-year-old...

Thirty-five years later, Debbie Vasquez's voice trembled as she described her trauma to a group of Southern Baptist leaders. She was 14, she said, when she was first molested by her pastor in Sanger, a tiny prairie town an hour north of Dallas. It was the first of many assaults that Vasquez said destroyed her teenage years and, at 18, left her pregnant by the Southern...

A classmate captured video of a seventh grader being attacked in science class last Friday. Students can be seen punching Liam Zirkle and stomping on his head, but it apears teachers didn’t immediately intervene. The Akron Public Schools district insisted that the teachers in the room did the right thing. “Our policy requires teachers to call the school resource officer, use verbal directions to try...

A friend request. A photo like. They are everyday occurrences in today’s world when it comes to social media. But 10Investigates found some teachers are using social media to take advantage of students. Since 2016, at least six Tampa Bay area teachers were arrested and accused of inappropriate contact with students. One Polk County teacher admitted to...

These teachers got accused of having sexual relationships with students. It started on social...]]>1Proposed Oregon law would tighten system to catch, punish educators who engage in sexual...Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:42:27 +0000http://www.iheartmyteacher.org/index.php?threads/proposed-oregon-law-would-tighten-system-to-catch-punish-educators-who-engage-in-sexual.136242/
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The Oregon Legislature is weighing a bill that would close loopholes and fix weaknesses in state rules that allowed a longtime educator to repeatedly dodge accusations of sexual misconduct in the state’s largest school district. Senate Bill 155 would strengthen the state teacher...

Proposed Oregon law would tighten system to catch, punish educators who engage in sexual...]]>Malthe Thomsen, New York City, New York (arrested June 2014) [coerced confession of sex abuse]Sun, 10 Feb 2019 07:36:35 +0000http://www.iheartmyteacher.org/index.php?threads/malthe-thomsen-new-york-city-new-york-arrested-june-2014-coerced-confession-of-sex-abuse.12714/
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An investigation by NBC 7’s media partner, Voice of San Diego, shows that teacher-student communication via texting and social media are often at the root of incidents of teacher misconduct. Texting and messaging via social media between students and teachers can be harmless, so long as the parties are talking about academics, but the Voice of San Diego’s report reveals social media and texting have been the...

We knew we were missing an important part of the Tod Mell story. Last October, we had written about the arrest of this beloved long-time Lynnwood Elementary School teacher. Mell had been charged with a misdemeanor, endangering the welfare of a child, after a complaint was filed on Oct. 4 in Guilderland Town...